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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

When I saw this image I was sooo excited to color him using my Copics - very soothing for my harried soul! Amazing how your mind goes lazer focused and all else fades into oblivian.
Then I finish the card and lo and behold, the christmas decorations are still not up, don't have my presents purchased yet, and my husband's birthday is next week... heavy sigh. Think my priorities are messed up?? Ya think??

Back to the card... don't wanna think about the other...

I matched the blues in the image to the base card and then added in the traditional reds and greens.

Mounted panel on a 1/4" black mat.

Sprinkled on the ultra thick white EP and heated it from the bottom to create a little snow.

Fussy cut the bottom of the wings, candy cane and his foot so they would hang off the edge.

Used a Corner Chomper to round three of the corners.

Added a very sparkly blue fuzzy ribbon and layered the matted panel over the top.

I also did this version that has been covered with a dryer sheet and fine glitter. Way too much glitter layered on and the image is lost in it - wasn't happy with it at all!

Create wildly and color with abandon! [and do the shopping later].~ginny

Saturday, November 25, 2017

I have been stamping for 40 years and I have a 'RubberRoom' that is about 100 sq. feet [10' x 10'] - you can understand that I am constantly looking for ways to organize and utilize every square inch!These are three ways I have tried to organize my thin Die Cuts... [left to right] a binder with magnetic sheets, a wire desk organizer and a box with magnetic sheets layered in it.

OLD SYSTEM

This is a close up of the wire basket... you can see it is a pain in the wazoo

to find the die I want - or just to look thru them for an idea!

So here is the deal... there was a Scrapbooking Convention in Sacramento recently and at the Kit xChange booth I spotted the word "Organization" and stopped to talk to the very personable owner and designer, Alicia Klein. Her idea and product arose from a need to organize her jewelry, but the product has sooo many other possibilities! As we exchanged ideas and I told her of my need to organize dies, Alicia graciously offered to set me up with a system to review. It has taken a while to start the organizational process - but I finally have some pictures to share with you:

Kit xChange System

This is what I came home with - a binder, three 'pages' of felt covered boards and two packages each of a set of medium and a set of large specially made bags - all designed by Alicia.

Small bags

These bags have a zip seal to secure even tiny beads and Velcro melded into the tops that will adhere to the pages or the inside cover of the binder. As you can see on the right, the bags will layer nicely, one right after another. I cut out the picture of the dies and the manufacturer from the original packaging to file with the die. TIP: I could usually get two dies in each bag so that as you lift each bag you see the picture of the other die in the bag [pictured - two different 'Happy Birthday' dies in the same bag].
My system will be to label each row with subject matter: 'Sentiments', 'Shapes', 'Flora', 'Fauna', etc.

Large bags

I even started a row of rubber stamps and their coordinating dies. The large bags were big enough to hold either sets of acrylic or fairly large red rubber stamps as in the cup cake seen on the right.

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And...If the binder doesn't work for you for reasons of space availability... you can take the individual pages out and attach them to a hanger or rod. You have the front and back of the hanging boards to use and the hanger can be hung on a wall, in a closet or even over a door [my choice]! My opinion? This system will work nicely for my smaller die cuts. I am able to organize so many on this hanging board system and as you can see it takes up so very little room! Also, it certainly appears that the hanging boards are strong enough to accommodate the weight of front and back covered with dies - and even to add another two pages hanging off the bottom! My only suggestion is that larger bags would be very useful. My plan instead will be to use magnetic pages in the binder to store the larger [thin] dies.

I encourage you to go to the Kit xChange web site ASAP because there is aBlack Friday Sale

Nov 24 - 27, 2017While you are there - check out the Travel Organizer Envelope [looks like a purse on a shoulder strap] if you want something to carry your current projects!

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Featuring another Mo Manning image called "Apple"... this card utilizes 3D paper sculpting to allow the image to pop off the page and give it depth. The 2nd layers here are her head & hair, both forearms holding the apple, the cuff on her jeans, the apples on the ladder and, of course, the basket full of apples.

image was printed out two times on Neenah CS

colored them with Copics

fussy cut & sculpted individual sections to be elevated

the edges around each cut piece are all individually colored with the darkest Copic color being used for that section of the piece.